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How can i do whatever I want to do ?
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I probably just fell for the most obvious ragebait in existence
but in the unlikely event that you are actually being serious then owning everything would probably wreck your entire system at some point whether directly or not. and looking through the github page it doesn't seem that hard to install to me, just copy paste one command and you're done with it.. idk never actually had the need to use it.
Yah if it was simple as that in Linux. When the page says do chown 775 xyz , the Linux throes error as can't modify, then I go down rabbit hole....honestly it's far from simple
"chown" is a command for changing the users and groups who own a file. But the options "775 xyz" are used with chmod, a command for changing what permissions the owners and groups have over a file. I'm not sure what you're trying to do so I can't tell what part of the command is wrong.
Either way you can run a command with elevated permissions by putting "sudo" in front of the command. Or by switching to the root user by using the command "su" or "sudo -i" (if you have sudo access, but don't know the root password)
To be able to use chown (Change Owner) you need to have the powers to do so. Your default user does not have such powers when the target is not yet owned by that user. Perhaps you did not use sudo, like
sudo chown 775 xyz
So I guess the documentation of that software installation howto is lacking specifics for Ubuntu (Ubuntu uses sudo, but e.g. Debian does not do so and defaults tosu
).